Inclusivity Series - Workshop 2: Inclusive approaches to teaching and learning

Caroline Chaffer

Senior Lecturer, University of York

Caroline Chaffer is a Senior Lecturer at University of York Management School.  A chartered accountant, Caroline has extensive experience in undergraduate, postgraduate and professional education. Caroline’s interests are in the factors that influence undergraduate management and accounting students’ ability to engage with careers and skills based provision and understand how this provision might be shaped in order for them to reach their full potential.  Caroline has published in areas including students as partners, accounting trainee competence and millennial ambitions. 

Jill Webb

Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning and Students, University of York

Jill Webb is Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning and Students for the Faculty of Social Sciences. A chartered accountant, Jill’s scholarship focuses on exploring the boundaries between university education and career and she is interested in the ways in which universities support students from all backgrounds in developing and realising their career aspirations. She has recently completed a comparative study of aspiration development in female students from working- and middle-class backgrounds and has published in areas including skills development, and students as partners.

Professor Kate Black

Co-Vice Chair: Management, Knowledge and Education

Professor Lisa Anderson

Professor of Management Development, University of Liverpool

Professor Lisa Anderson is Professor of Management Development and Associate Dean (Postgraduate) in the Management School at the University of Liverpool. She has worked at Liverpool since 2005 and have held a number of roles in that time including Director of Online Programmes, Director of the DBA and Director of the Online MBA.

Lisa gained her PhD from Leeds University in 2008 and also holds CIPD professional qualifications. In 2008 she was appointed Lead Evaluator for the Northern Leadership Academy, a £5m regional development agency project, and was a member of the project Think Tank. She has a wide range of teaching experience covering all levels and modes and has designed and launched a number of new programmes.

Lisa's research, teaching, engagement with practice and leadership within and outside the university are all focused on the the aim of improving management practice and developing the management profession. Her research focuses on how managers learn in a range of contexts, from on-campus and online management classrooms through to formal and informal learning in the workplace. She has a particular interest in action learning and has written about it in the context of the experiences of owner-managers in SMEs and senior managers studying for a professional doctorate. She still regularly works with small businesses on leadership development projects and is currently working on a knowledge exchange project with Wood plc aimed at developing women scientists and engineers for senior mangement roles.

Lisa's research has been published in British Journal of Management, Management Learning, Human Resource Development International and her co-edited book 'A Guide to Professional Doctorates in Business and Management' was nominated for the CMI's Management Book of the Year.

Professor Martyna Sliwa

Martyna Śliwa is Professor of Business Ethics and Associate Dean for Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability at Durham University Business School UK. Her research focuses on diversity, inclusivity and intersectionality in organizations, language differences and their effects on organizational hierarchies and power relations. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Management Learning and the Vice-Chair for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity for BAM.